Center for Evaluation and Treatment of Anxiety, Department of Psychology, Porter Hall 200, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA.
Psychosocial Processes and Health Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Porter Hall 200, Ohio University, Athens, OH 45701, USA.
J Anxiety Disord. 2015 Dec;36:115-26. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2015.08.004. Epub 2015 Sep 11.
Accumulating evidence supports fear of evaluation in general as important in social anxiety, including fear of positive evaluation (FPE) and fear of negative evaluation (FNE). The present study examined state responses to an impromptu speech task with a sample of 81 undergraduates. This study is the first to compare and contrast physiological responses associated with FPE and FNE, and to examine both FPE- and FNE-related changes in state anxiety/affect in response to perceived social evaluation during a speech. FPE uniquely predicted (relative to FNE/depression) increases in mean heart rate during the speech; in contrast, neither FNE nor depression related to changes in heart rate. Both FPE and FNE related uniquely to increases in negative affect and state anxiety during the speech. Furthermore, pre-speech state anxiety mediated the relationship between trait FPE and diminished positive affect during the speech. Implications for the theoretical conceptualization and treatment of social anxiety are discussed.
越来越多的证据支持在社交焦虑中，一般的评价恐惧是很重要的，包括对积极评价的恐惧（FPE）和对消极评价的恐惧（FNE）。本研究使用 81 名本科生的样本，考察了即兴演讲任务中的状态反应。这是首次比较和对比与 FPE 和 FNE 相关的生理反应，并研究在演讲中感知到社会评价时，与 FPE 和 FNE 相关的状态焦虑/情感变化。与 FNE/抑郁相比，FPE 独特地预测了演讲过程中心率的平均增加；相比之下，FNE 和抑郁都与心率变化无关。FPE 和 FNE 都与演讲过程中负面情绪和状态焦虑的增加有关。此外，演讲前的状态焦虑中介了特质 FPE 与演讲过程中积极情绪减少之间的关系。讨论了对社交焦虑的理论概念化和治疗的影响。
